Eli
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Named at 1 Samuel 1:3 as the father of Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD at Shiloh, and at 1:9 as the priest: “Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.” At 1:12–17 Eli sees the mouth of Hannah as she prays, thinks she is drunk and says, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”; after her answer he says, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.” At 1:25–26 they bring the child to Eli, and she says, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the LORD.” At 2:11 the child serves the LORD before Eli the priest, and at 2:20 Eli blesses Elkanah and his wife. At 2:22–25 Eli is very old, and he hears all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting; he says to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people”, but they don’t listen to the voice of their father. 2:27–36 gives the LORD’s word that a man of God brings to Eli, which says, “This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.” At 3:2–9, when Eli’s eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see, the LORD calls Samuel, and Eli perceives that the LORD had called the child; at 3:12 the LORD says to Samuel, “In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.” At 3:16 Eli calls Samuel and says, “Samuel, my son!”, and 3:18 says, “Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, ‘It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him.’” 1 Samuel 4:12–18 says that when a man of Benjamin who ran out of the army came to Shiloh, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark; that Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were set, so that he could not see; and that when he who brought the news answered, “Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured,” and made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died, “for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.”
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- 1KI 2:26–27, engwebp
26To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord GOD’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
27So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfill the LORD’s word which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
- 1SA 1:3–8, engwebp
3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there.
4When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;
5but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.
6Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
7So year by year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.
8Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
- 1SA 1:9–18, engwebp
9So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.
10She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.
11She vowed a vow, and said, “LORD of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
12As she continued praying before the LORD, Eli saw her mouth.
13Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.
14Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
15Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD.
16Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”
17Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”
18She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.
- 1SA 1:24–28, engwebp
24When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to the LORD’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.
25They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
26She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the LORD.
27I prayed for this child, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him.
28Therefore I have also given him to the LORD. As long as he lives he is given to the LORD.” He worshiped the LORD there.
- 1SA 2:11, engwebp
11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the LORD before Eli the priest.
- 1SA 2:12–17, engwebp
12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the LORD.
13The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
14and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.
15Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”
16If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
17The sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for the men despised the LORD’s offering.
- 1SA 2:18–21, engwebp
18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
19Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
20Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May the LORD give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of the LORD.” Then they went to their own home.
21The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD.
- 1SA 2:22–26, engwebp
22Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
23He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
24No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the LORD’s people disobey.
25If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because the LORD intended to kill them.
26The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD and also with men.
- 1SA 2:27–36, engwebp
27A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?
28Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
29Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
30“Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the LORD says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
31Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
32You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.
33The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.
34This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
35I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.
36It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
- 1SA 3:1–10, engwebp
1The child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. The LORD’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.
2At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
3and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in the LORD’s temple where God’s ark was,
4The LORD called Samuel. He said, “Here I am.”
5He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He said, “I didn’t call. Lie down again.” He went and lay down.
6The LORD called yet again, “Samuel!” Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He answered, “I didn’t call, my son. Lie down again.”
7Now Samuel didn’t yet know the LORD, neither was the LORD’s word yet revealed to him.
8The LORD called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.
9Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, LORD; for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
10The LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant hears.”
- 1SA 3:11–14, engwebp
11The LORD said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
12In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
13For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.
14Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”
- 1SA 3:15–18, engwebp
15Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the LORD’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision.
16Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son!” He said, “Here I am.”
17He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.”
18Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him.”
- 1SA 4:3–4, engwebp
3When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of the LORD’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”
4So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
- 1SA 4:10–11, engwebp
10The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.
11God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
- 1SA 4:12–18, engwebp
12A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.
13When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.
14When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?” The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
15Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.
16The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.” He said, “How did the matter go, my son?”
17He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
18When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
- 1SA 4:19–22, engwebp
19His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
20About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.
21She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
22She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”
- 1SA 14:1–5, engwebp
1Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.
2Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men,
3including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.
4Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
5The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
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Eli — Father of — Hophni
Evidence: 1 Samuel 1:3–8
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Eli — Father of — Phinehas (son of Eli)
Evidence: 1 Samuel 1:3–8
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Took part in (8) — Hannah’s vow, and the words of Eli the priest, Hannah brings the weaned child to the LORD’s house in Shiloh, The child Samuel ministers in a linen ephod, and the little robe his mother makes him, Eli, very old, hears what his sons do and speaks to them, A man of God comes to Eli with the LORD’s word, The LORD calls Samuel, who had laid down in the LORD’s temple, Samuel tells Eli every bit, and hides nothing from him, Eli hears the news of God’s ark, falls from his seat and dies
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This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there.
So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.
As she continued praying before the LORD, Eli saw her mouth.
Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.
Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”
They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the LORD before Eli the priest.
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the LORD.
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?
The child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. The LORD’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.
At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He said, “I didn’t call. Lie down again.” He went and lay down.
The LORD called yet again, “Samuel!” Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He answered, “I didn’t call, my son. Lie down again.”
The LORD called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.
In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”
Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the LORD’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision.
Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son!” He said, “Here I am.”
So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.
When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?” The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.
The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.” He said, “How did the matter go, my son?”
When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.
So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfill the LORD’s word which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Eli (person-eli) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/eli Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 1:3 as the father of Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD at Shiloh, and at 1:9 as the priest: “Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.” At 1:12–17 Eli sees the mouth of Hannah as she prays, thinks she is drunk and says, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”; after her answer he says, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.” At 1:25–26 they bring the child to Eli, and she says, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the LORD.” At 2:11 the child serves the LORD before Eli the priest, and at 2:20 Eli blesses Elkanah and his wife. At 2:22–25 Eli is very old, and he hears all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting; he says to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people”, but they don’t listen to the voice of their father. 2:27–36 gives the LORD’s word that a man of God brings to Eli, which says, “This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.” At 3:2–9, when Eli’s eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see, the LORD calls Samuel, and Eli perceives that the LORD had called the child; at 3:12 the LORD says to Samuel, “In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.” At 3:16 Eli calls Samuel and says, “Samuel, my son!”, and 3:18 says, “Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, ‘It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him.’” 1 Samuel 4:12–18 says that when a man of Benjamin who ran out of the army came to Shiloh, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark; that Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were set, so that he could not see; and that when he who brought the news answered, “Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured,” and made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died, “for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.” Cited evidence: 1KI 2:26–27, engwebp / 1SA 1:3–8, engwebp / 1SA 1:9–18, engwebp / 1SA 1:24–28, engwebp / 1SA 2:11, engwebp / 1SA 2:12–17, engwebp / 1SA 2:18–21, engwebp / 1SA 2:22–26, engwebp (and 9 more of 17) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.